Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
Global Families
A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international...
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors.
When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool...
Modern Theories of Art 2
From Impressionism to Kandinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
In this volume, the third in his classic series of texts surveying the history of art theory, Moshe Barasch traces the hidden patterns and interlocking themes in the study of art, from Impressionism to Abstract Art.
Barasch details the immense social changes in the creation, presentation, and reception...
Modern Theories of Art 1
From Winckelmann to Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
This is an analytical survey of the thought about painting and sculpture as it unfolded from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This was the period during which theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture, underwent a radical transformation, as a result of...
The Widows' Might
Widowhood and Gender in Early British America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In early American society, one’s identity was determined in large part by gender. The ways in which men and women engaged with their communities were generally not equal: married women fell under the legal control of their husbands, who handled all negotiations with the outside world, as well as...
Critics at Work
Interviews 1993-2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies, gay and lesbian studies, philosophy, and other fields. It provides informative, timely, and often provocative...
Marxism and the French Left
Studies on Labour and Politics in France, 1830-1981
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the complex and interwoven themes that unify the...
In a New Land
A Comparative View of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title!
According to the 2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies...
The Delectable Negro
Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on...
Arranging Grief
Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize
Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana...
Toleration and Its Limits
NOMOS XLVIII
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Toleration has a rich tradition in Western political philosophy. It is, after all, one of the defining topics of political philosophy-historically pivotal in the development of modern liberalism, prominent in the writings of such canonical figures as John Locke and John Stuart Mill, and central to...
The Master of Seventh Avenue
David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892—1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century America. A “character” in the truest sense of the word, Dubinsky was both revered and reviled, but never dull, conformist, or bound...
Helen Keller
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
“[My life] is so rich with blessings—an immense capacity of enjoyment, books, and beloved friends. . . . Most earnestly I pray the dear Heavenly Father that I may sometime make myself far more worthy of the love shown to me than I am now.”
—April 22, 1900 letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies
Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary...